Active Admin is a framework for creating administration style interfaces. It
abstracts common business application patterns to make it simple for developers
to implement beautiful and elegant interfaces with very little effort.

Getting Started

Active Admin is released as a Ruby Gem. The gem is to be installed within a Ruby
on Rails application. To install, simply add the following to your Gemfile:

# Gemfilegem'activeadmin'

After updating your bundle, run the installer

rails generate active_admin:install

The installer creates an initializer used for configuring defaults used by
Active Admin as well as a new folder at app/admin to put all your admin
configurations.

Migrate your db and start the server:

$> rake db:migrate
$> rails server

Visit http://localhost:3000/admin and log in using:

User: admin@example.com

Password: password

Voila! You’re on your brand new Active Admin dashboard.

To register your first model, run:

$> rails generate active_admin:resource
[MyModelName]

This creates a file at app/admin/my_model_names.rb for configuring the
resource. Refresh your web browser to see the interface.

Next Steps

Now that you have a working Active Admin installation, learn how to customize it: